Processing, Storage, and Selected Storage Service Costs for Fire-Cured, Types 22 and 23, and Dark Air-Cured, Types 35 and 36 Tobaccos in Commercial Facilities, 1966-67 and Estimated 1968

Excerpts from the report: This report analyzes the costs of handling, processing, storage, and related services in commercial facilities handling fire-cured, types 22 and 23, and dark air-cured, types 35 and 36, tobaccos during 1966/67 and presents estimates for 1968. The results are based on accounting records of five firms processing fire-cured and dark air-cured, five firms storing fire-cured, and four firms storing dark air-cured tobaccos. These processing firms machine redried about 17.7 million pounds of green-weight tobacco with a redried weight yield of better than 88 percent. Redrying costs include costs for receiving tobacco into the plant, redrying it, packing it into hogsheads, and shipping it out. Costs were also developed for tobacco storage and storage services. Services included in this report are innage, outage, sampling, reweighing and restoring, and reweighing while performing other services. The 1966/67 labor costs were updated to reflect minimum wage changes effective February 1, 1968, and changes in other variable costs as of January 1968.